School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór (roll number 1685)
- Location:
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0357, Page 263
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- (continued from previous page)was supposed to cure chincough.
To meet a white horse was also a cure.
Measles: Milk and sheep's dropping drunk by the person affected.
Yellow-Jaundice: Sheep's dropping and seven vermin from a stranger person with half a pint of whiskey left by the fire to draw like tea and then drunk was a cure.
To drink black tea and porter and to eat no bread made with milk.
Black tea and loaf bread and the white of an egg in water was a cure for yellow-jaundice
To drink cool tea without milk or sugar.
Thrush: To wash the mouth with ginger, vinegar, brown sugar, saffron and half a pint of whiskey mixed to-gether
The mouth was washed with saltpetre.
Honey was put into the mouth.
Dandelion boiled and strained and mixed with vinegar
Propan of a goose-suck tea through it.(continues on next page)
